Bill Text: TX HB428 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer testing and screening.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB428-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 428 |
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relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer testing | ||
and screening. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1370.003(b), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) Coverage required under this section includes at a | ||
minimum: | ||
(1) a CA 125 blood test; [ |
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(2) a conventional Pap smear screening or a screening | ||
using liquid-based cytology methods, as approved by the United | ||
States Food and Drug Administration, alone or in combination with a | ||
test approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for | ||
the detection of the human papillomavirus; and | ||
(3) any other test or screening approved by the United | ||
States Food and Drug Administration for the detection of ovarian | ||
cancer. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1370.003, Insurance Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered, issued | ||
for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022. A health | ||
benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before | ||
January 1, 2022, is governed by the law as it existed immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 428 was passed by the House on April | ||
13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 15, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 428 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |